Kestrel 5700 ELITE Applied Balistics with LiNK

The Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics is a comprehensive weather meter for measurement and logging of primary environmental conditions, including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, heat index, pressure, and altitude.

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Description

The Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics is a comprehensive weather meter for measurement and logging of primary environmental conditions, including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, heat index, pressure, and altitude. It also contains a powerful ballistics calculator to help you hit your long-range shot on the first try. This meter employs theApplied Ballistics bullet library of custom drag models, an exact measurement of your bullet’s drag profile plus corrections for Aerodynamic Jump, Spin Drift, Coriolis, and Drop Scale Factoring to achieve accurate extended long-range shots.

What’s new with the Kestrel Elite Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics over the previous Kestrel 4500 Applied Ballistics series:

  • Bluetooth LINK to Smartphones / Mobiel / Android / IOS
  • Takes 1 AA battery (instead of 2 AAA)
  • Battery door is in the back, sealed away from the motherboard, should your battery leak as was common with all the 4000 series
  • Improved high resolution screen for any lighting (even sunlight) and easy on your eyes.
  • Intuitive user-interface screen navigation
  • Multiple Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
  • Scratch and breakage-resistant window
  • All meters include both options of Red (NV – Night Vision) & White backlights.
  • Slightly bigger, not really noticeable difference. Fits same cases.

If you select the Bluetooth Kestrel LINK model, you’ll want to download the Kestrel LiNK Ballistics app to your smart phone to load your guns / ammo to the meter. The new Kestrel Meters with Bluetooth include the software necessary to communicate wirelessly at a range of up to 100 feet with a clear line of site (walls or obstacles will effect this range).

There is a free app for both Android and iPhone for the Ballistic Profile Loader.

All 5000 series meters will have both a bright green backlight, which is great for even high sunlight conditions, and a night-vision preserving backlight. The red night vision (NV) backlight incorporates optical filter to reduce overall brightness and minimize blue and green spectrum light to preserve night vision. (Note: This ‘night vision’ is not compatible with night-vision equipment.) Basically, with the red backlight, your eyes don’t need to adjust when looking from your meter to the horizon in night time use.

This Kestrel 5500 with Kestrel LINK will work in conjunction with compatible range finders like the Bushnell Elite 1 Mile CONX range finder you’ve been reading about. It will also work with many other apps on the market for ballistics and weather functions. It’s the most popular for ballistic applications due to the compass with crosswind functions.

The Kestrel applied ballistics meter combines sophisticated environmental sensing features with long-range shooting ballistics information in one hand-held device. The built in Applied Ballistics software provides all of the following:

  • The accurate and trusted ‘Litz’ library ofG1 and G7 referenced Ballistic Coefficients (BC’s).
  • Custom drag curve modeling; helpful in engaging targets beyond the supersonic range of the bullet.
  • Ballistic Calibration (truing) feature allows you to ‘train’ the solver based on actual bullet impact.
  • PC Loader software; build firearm profiles on your computer and transfer them via wire or Bluetooth

Additional information

Weight 0.232 kg
Dimensions 16 × 2.5 × 16 cm
Color

Tan, Olive, Black, Blaze Orange, Flat Dark Earth

Specification

Sensor Accuracy (+/-) Resolution Specification range
Wind Speed | Air flow Large of 3% of reading, least significant digit or 20 ft/min 0.1 m/s 0.6 to 40.0 m/s
1ft/min 118 to 7.874 ft/min
0.1km/h 2.2 to 114.0 km/h
0.1 mph 1.3 to 89.5 mph
0.1 knots 1.2 to 77.8 knots
1 B 0 to 12 B
0.1 F/S 2-131.2
Ambient Temperature 0.9 F 0.1 F  -20.0 to 158.0 F
0.5 C 0.1 C  -29.0 to 70.0 C
Relative Humidity  +-2% RH 0.1% RH 10 to 90% 25C non-condensing
Pressure  +- 1.5 mbar at 25 C, 00-1100 0.01 inHg 25C/77F
mbar/ +-0.044inHg at 77F 20.67-32.48 inHg/ 0.1 hPa|mbar 700-1100 mbar/20.67-32.48 inHg/10.15-
 +-0.022 PSI 10.15-15.95 PSI 0.01 PSI 15.95 PSI
Compass  +-5 1 0 to 360
1/16th Cardinal Scale
 
Additional product info
Battery life AA Lithium, included. Up to 400 hours of use, reduced by backlight or Bluetooth radio transmission use.
Shock Resistance MIL-STD-810g, Transit Shock, Method 516.5 Procedure IV; unit only; impacy may damage replaceable impeller.
Sealing Waterproof (IP67 and NEMA-6)
Display & Battery Operational Temperature Limits 14 F to 131 F | -10C to 55C Measurements may be taken beyond the limits of the operational temperature range of the display and batteries by maintaining the unit within the operational range and the exposing it to the ore extreme environment for the minimum time necessary to take reading.
Size & Weight 5.0 x 1.9 x 1.1 in/12.7 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm, 4.3 oz/121 g. (Lithium battery included)